Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George each discussed aspects of the importance of preserving marriage as the union of a man and a woman—and the consequences of redefining marriage for both government and civil society.

Girgis, a law student at Yale and political philosophy student at Princeton, reminded the audience that the central issue in the marriage debate really isn’t the idea of “equality” so often thrown about by those would redefine marriage. That, he insisted, ignores the more fundamental question of “What is marriage?”

Anderson, who is Heritage’s William E. Simon Fellow in religion and a free society, noted that the struggle over redefining marriage is a recent chapter in the larger movement to protect and strengthen marriage in America.

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